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Writing about Eddie Huang’s New Year’s dinner, Sam Sifton shook his head at “a few loudmouths zipped on whiskey sours and device-addiction, barking at waiters and other customers: clowns from Clown College, new to New York.” Now Mark “Marky Meat” Pastore, the “Sultan of Steak” at Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors, tweets the following to Sifton: “This is the whiskey sour drinking clown and HEY we all live in NYC! We had a great time last! Thanks for the vote of confidence!” Hmmm, so maybe not all of those “cads with escort-service friends” and “tight-faced matrons in vintage Halston” agree with how they’re described in Times reviews? Speaking of which, below are the answers to Tuesday’s pop quiz.

2. The Mark
“Local burghers sit in the dining rooms alongside tight-faced matrons in vintage Halston, younger ones in diamonds and black pencil skirts. There are senior partners from white-shoe firms; publishing tycoons; one of the city’s premier public relations men, fiddling with an immense gold ring.”

3. Oceana
“People who are particular about their food, who have bespoke shoes, who have worn white flannel trousers and walked upon the beach.”

4. La Grenouille
“City patricians, upscale travelers, romantics celebrating anniversaries, cads with escort-service friends, priests drinking Burgundy and spooning soup past their dog collars. There is jewelry everywhere, evidence of plastic surgery. There are Thackeray characters come to life in a modern age. Some have spent too much time in the sun, doing nothing much more than turning the pages of a book.”

5. DBGB
“Middle-aged [name of chef]ites in town cars and sportswear [who] talk gaily of the market, the Galliano show in Paris, the Astor verdict, Letterman Date-night couples and Wall Street irregulars.”

11. Imperial Palace
“Multigenerational Chinese predominate, the elderly leaning on parked cars while children run or pout and moms and dads work mobile devices against the delay.”

12. Lavo
“Roughly 70 percent of the women who eat at the restaurant look like [Tinsley Mortimer and Kelly Bensimon] Men in suits who’ve removed their ties, guys who worked in Brussels and don’t wear ties under their suits but sweaters, or little scarves.”

14. The Lambs Club
“Editors and artists, writers, models and hangers-on, along with Broadway actors and in-town rock stars and friends of [the restaurant’s owner]. They gather in contentment and good clothes.”

15. Marc Forgione
“Couples, young families, people on their way to that state. Later, the scene will shift toward off-work analysts from the counting houses nearby, local roués at the bar and shy visitors peeking at them over glasses of savagnin.”

16. Fornino Park Slope
“Those who live nearby and for those who have come from Bay Ridge or Mill Basin for a nice night out, from Ditmas or Kensington or Sunset Park those who still think of Manhattan as ‘the city,’ and who rarely cross a river to get to work.”

17. Plein Sud
“Hotel guests (‘I used to stay at 60 Thompson’), television fans (‘Psst, look, I think that’s Kenny from Top Chef!’) and gastro-tourists photographing their mussels in coconut milk.”

18. Wall & Water
“Men and women poring over the drafts of PowerPoint presentations while stabbing at vegetables, terribly alone, or families in repose, children whining over milk, parents staring wordless and exhausted at the ceiling. Groups of business associates ”

19. The Lion
“Delta Taus and other frat packers, men in distressed jeans aspiring to six-pack abs, women skating on the thin ice of fashion and yapping into mobile phones.”

20. Kenmare
“Dinner parties that seem pulled from rejected ‘Sex and the City’ scripts Models and people with incredible collections of music and sneakers and phone numbers, accompanied by the people who went to college with them who now work on Wall Street.”

21. Le Caprice
“Plain-Jane American wealth. There are business travelers and older residents of the Upper East Side, a few Eurobankers and the odd plastic-surgery victim.”

23. Casa Lever
“There is a lot of cashmere and silk plenty of crazy wealth. (That’s Mr. Rosen over there now!) But it’s still fun in Spence-Chapin thrift-shop merino, in a Housing Works frock.”

24. Purple Yam
“Date-night renters at the bar, kids from Ocean Avenue flats sharing an entree and a beer; local home-owning families eating out with neighbors; Filipinos who’ve driven in from other parts of bedroom Brooklyn; a few bewildered travelers off the Q train.”

25. Madangsui
“Celebratory young Koreans texting office parties and passers-by from local hotels.”

26. Bar Americain
“There are office parties celebrating around the large round tables by the open kitchen, a few setups of in-laws and marrieds, some dudes in Brooks suits getting serious about rib-eyes and hash browns.”

27. Betel
“The crowd runs from sample-sale women in black to fellows in untucked striped dress shirts and pressed jeans, everyone hopeful: top of the second inning, no score.”